10 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 1

SYNONYMS
eka-dina—one day; eka-sthane—in one place; nadi—a river; para—crossing;
haite—to do; udiya navika—a boatman who was an Oriya (Orissan); kukkura—
the dog; nd cadaya—does not allow to mount; naukdte—on the boat.

TRANSLATION

One day, when they needed to cross a river, an Orissan boatman would not
allow the dog to get in the boat.

TEXT 19

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kukkura rahila, —sivananda duhkhi haila
dasa pana kadi diya kukkure para kaila

SYNONYMS

kukkura rahila—the dog remained; sivananda dubkhi haila—Sivananda be-
came very unhappy; dasa pana—ten pana; kadi—small conchshells; diya —pay-
ing; kukkure—the dog; para kaila—crossed to the other side of the river.

TRANSLATION

Sivananda Sena, unhappy that the dog had to stay behind, paid the boatman
ten pana of conchshells to take the dog across the river.

PURPORT

One panais eighty kadis, or small conchshells. Formerly, even fifty or sixty years
ago, there was no paper currency in India. Coins were generally made not of base
metal but of gold, silver and copper. In other words, the medium of exchange was
really something valuable. Four pieces of kadi made one ganda, and twenty such
gandas equaled one pana. This kadi was also used as a medium of exchange;
therefore Sivinanda Sena paid for the dog with dasa pana, or eighty times ten
pieces of kadi. In those days one paisa was also subdivided into small conchshells,
but at the present moment the prices for commodities have gone so high that
there is nothing one can get in exchange for only one paisa With one paisa in
those days, however, one could purchase sufficient vegetables to provide for a
whole family. Even thirty years ago, vegetables were occasionally so inexpensive
that one paisa’s worth could provide for a whole family for a day.
